Personal compliments, however, are proper only from a close friend.
Totty had been Thyrza's close friend; that formerly had been a source of jealous feeling, now it seemed to have become an attraction.
No one would at first believe that Mr. Newthorpe's retreat was final; no one save a close friend or two who understood what his life had been, and how he dreaded for his daughter the temptations which had warped her mother's womanhood.
He greeted us both warmly, and being a close friend of Rasputin, the monk took him into his cosy little den, where for over an hour they remained closeted together.
Before he went to Paris, Azef was a close friend of Rasputin and of Stürmer.
So it was that by noon next day both Violle and his pretty wife--who had only the day before been a close friend of the Tsaritza--were on their way to Schlüsselburg as dangerous to the State.
In particular, the position taken by Senator Hoar, a rigid Republican and a close friend of President McKinley, made a strong impression.
Arthur, the collector of the port, was a close friend of Roscoe Conkling, the head of the state machine; and A.
Footnote 195: Theophanes, a philosopher of Mitylene, a close friend of Pompey's, in whose house he frequently resided.
He was a close friend of Atticus, who afterwards saved his property from confiscation by the Triumvirs (Nep.
And he has great weight in England—is a close friend of the King—and he is no’ willing for the Hielands to take the oaths.
Being the Secretary and a close friend of the King, he can do what he will with Scotland.
For a woman to dream that her lover or associate is a printer, foretells she will fail to please her parents in the selection of a close friend.
I}f it is broken, you will incur the displeasure of a close friend.
For a young woman to see a fireman crippled, or meet with an accident otherwise, implies grave danger is threatening a close friend.
And--by a man whom he'd trusted as a close friend.
A few years, recently, as what you might call a close friend.
He was a close friend of mine when we were young men in London; he a bank manager; I, just beginning my work.
These good folk of the farm tended me most kindly, for they knew me by sight as a close friend of both king and bishop, and for their sakes were glad to do all they might for me.
In 1830 Macdonald, then fifteen years of age, entered upon the study of law in the office of George Mackenzie of Kingston, a close friend of his father, with whom also he lodged.
He was destined to fill the office of Finance minister of Canada, to become a baronet, an Imperial Privy Councillor, and a close friend of His Majesty King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales.
The presence of this powerful and active personality, who was moreover a close friend of the emperor, was greatly resented by the Saxon duke, Bernard II.
But he probably owed this influence to his brother Flaccus, a close friend of Tiberius who succeeded Graecinus as consul ordinarius for 17, and whom Ovid gives prominent mention at ix 57 ff.
Makovitsky, a follower of Tolstoi, came for a short visit from Hungary; later becoming a close friend, he remained with Tolstoi uninterruptedly until the latter's death.
A close friend of Tolstoi, Senator Alexander Mickailovich Kuzminsky, president at this time of the St. Petersburg District Court.
There is a close friend of mine in hiding from the Danes somewhere here," I said, doubting, from her manner, if she spoke the truth.
Now Sigurd was my father's close friend, and I have had nought to do with him.
But I thought Sigurd must have fostered you; he was ever a close friend of Vemund's.
He is a close friend of mine; in fact, he probably was the first friend I had in this country.
Why, Ethel Cartwright," he rejoined, "a close friendof our hostess.
He was raconteur of ability and had been a close friend of the elder Vaughan's years before at Yale.
He rose, discomfited, to meet his hostess coming toward him with Miss Ethel Cartwright, a close friend of hers whom he had never before met.
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